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In this major new collection, leading experts in the field of
economic sociology combine to provide a critical overview of the
latest approaches to the study of economics in the social sciences.
Traditionally social scientists have taken one of two approaches
towards the economy, either emphasizing the rationality of economic
actors and the objective reality of market forces or alternatively
rejecting these very notions as abstractions which do violence to
the embeddedness of economic relations in social and cultural life.
In contrast, The Technological Economy argues for a new
understanding of the relationship between the economy and culture.
In developing its critical analysis of the new economic sociology,
this book is exceptional in adopting cultural approaches to the
economy, whilst taking the role of economics in the formation of
markets seriously.
Foucault is often thought to have a great deal to say about the
history of madness and sexuality, but little in terms of a general
analysis of government and the state.; This volume draws on
Foucault's own research to challenge this view, demonstrating the
central importance of his work for the study of contemporary
politics.; It focuses on liberalism and neo- liberalism,
questioning the conceptual opposition of freedom/constraint,
state/market and public/private that inform liberal thought.
The idea that research should become more interdisciplinary has
become commonplace. According to influential commentators, the
unprecedented complexity of problems such as climate change or the
social implications of biomedicine demand interdisciplinary efforts
integrating both the social and natural sciences. In this context,
the question of whether a given knowledge practice is too
disciplinary, or interdisciplinary, or not disciplinary enough has
become an issue for governments, research policy makers and funding
agencies. Interdisciplinarity, in short, has emerged as a key
political preoccupation; yet the term tends to obscure as much as
illuminate the diverse practices gathered under its rubric. This
volume offers a new approach to theorising interdisciplinarity,
showing how the boundaries between the social and natural sciences
are being reconfigured. It examines the current preoccupation with
interdisciplinarity, notably the ascendance of a particular
discourse in which it is associated with a transformation in the
relations between science, technology and society. Contributors
address attempts to promote collaboration between, on the one hand,
the natural sciences and engineering and, on the other, the social
sciences, arts and humanities. From ethnography in the IT industry
to science and technology studies, environmental science to medical
humanities, cybernetics to art-science, the collection interrogates
how interdisciplinarity has come to be seen as a solution not only
to enhancing relations between science and society, but the pursuit
of accountability and the need to foster innovation.
Interdisciplinarity is essential reading for scholars, students and
policy makers across the social sciences, arts and humanities,
including anthropology, geography, sociology, science and
technology studies and cultural studies, as well as all those
engaged in interdisciplinary research. It will have particular
relevance for those concerned with the knowledge economy, science
policy, environmental politics, applied anthropology, ELSI
research, medical humanities, and art-science.
Foucault is often thought to have a great deal to say about the
history of madness and sexuality, but little in terms of a general
analysis of government and the state.; This volume draws on
Foucault's own research to challenge this view, demonstrating the
central importance of his work for the study of contemporary
politics.; It focuses on liberalism and neo- liberalism,
questioning the conceptual opposition of freedom/constraint,
state/market and public/private that inform liberal thought.
The idea that research should become more interdisciplinary has
become commonplace. According to influential commentators, the
unprecedented complexity of problems such as climate change or the
social implications of biomedicine demand interdisciplinary efforts
integrating both the social and natural sciences. In this context,
the question of whether a given knowledge practice is too
disciplinary, or interdisciplinary, or not disciplinary enough has
become an issue for governments, research policy makers and funding
agencies. Interdisciplinarity, in short, has emerged as a key
political preoccupation; yet the term tends to obscure as much as
illuminate the diverse practices gathered under its rubric. This
volume offers a new approach to theorising interdisciplinarity,
showing how the boundaries between the social and natural sciences
are being reconfigured. It examines the current preoccupation with
interdisciplinarity, notably the ascendance of a particular
discourse in which it is associated with a transformation in the
relations between science, technology and society. Contributors
address attempts to promote collaboration between, on the one hand,
the natural sciences and engineering and, on the other, the social
sciences, arts and humanities. From ethnography in the IT industry
to science and technology studies, environmental science to medical
humanities, cybernetics to art-science, the collection interrogates
how interdisciplinarity has come to be seen as a solution not only
to enhancing relations between science and society, but the pursuit
of accountability and the need to foster innovation.
Interdisciplinarity is essential reading for scholars, students and
policy makers across the social sciences, arts and humanities,
including anthropology, geography, sociology, science and
technology studies and cultural studies, as well as all those
engaged in interdisciplinary research. It will have particular
relevance for those concerned with the knowledge economy, science
policy, environmental politics, applied anthropology, ELSI
research, medical humanities, and art-science.
Despite the enormous influence of Michel Foucault in gender
studies, social theory, and cultural studies, his work has been
relatively neglected in the study of politics. Although he never
published a book on the state, in the late 1970s Foucault examined
the technologies of power used to regulate society and the
ingenious recasting of power and agency that he saw as both
consequence and condition of their operation.
These twelve essays provide a critical introduction to Foucault's
work on politics, exploring its relevance to past and current
thinking about liberal and neo-liberal forms of government. Moving
away from the great texts of liberal political philosophy, this
book looks closely at the technical means with which the ideals of
liberal political rationalities have been put into practice in such
areas as schools, welfare, and the insurance industry.
This fresh approach to one of the seminal thinkers of the twentieth
century is essential reading for anyone interested in social and
cultural theory, sociology, and politics.
Curricular peer mentoring is a programmatic approach to enrich
student learning and engagement in postsecondary courses in which
instructors welcome a more experienced undergraduate student into a
credit course they are teaching. The student then serves as peer
mentor to the students enrolled. Peer mentors can provide a variety
of peer-appropriate, course-specific mentoring, tutoring,
facilitation and leadership roles and activities that complement
the roles of the course s instructor and teaching assistants both
in classroom settings and beyond. A program provides training and
ongoing support for a larger number of peer mentors and
instructional teams and manages recruitment and program research
and quality. This volume provides research findings, definitions,
theories, and practical program descriptions as a foundation for
program development and research of undergraduate curricular peer
mentoring programs in higher education. This work builds on a long
history of higher education program development and collects a
significant amount of literature that has previously been
scattered."
Technology assumes a remarkable importance in contemporary
political life. Today, politicians and intellectuals extol the
virtues of networking, interactivity and feedback, and stress the
importance of new media and biotechnologies for economic
development and political innovation. Measures of intellectual
productivity and property play an increasingly critical part in
assessments of the competitiveness of firms, universities and
nation-states. At the same time, contemporary radical politics has
come to raise questions about the political preoccupation with
technical progress, while also developing a certain degree of
technical sophistication itself.In a series of in-depth analyses of
topics ranging from environmental protest to intellectual property
law, and from interactive science centres to the European Union,
this book interrogates the politics of the technological society.
Critical of the form and intensity of the contemporary
preoccupation with new technology, Political Machines opens up a
space for thinking the relation between technical innovation and
political inventiveness.>
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